Anthropic
Research Operations, Reinforcement Learning
$210K–$260K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- Years correlate with internal job level requirements; no specific number stated.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; relevant field demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available, but not for every role or candidate; if an offer is made, Anthropic will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa and provides immigration counsel.
About the job
Support reinforcement learning leadership by prioritizing decisions, improving operational processes, and ensuring plans and commitments are communicated and completed.
What you'll do
- Manage leaders’ time, meeting priorities, and incoming requests; triage, route, and escalate issues.
- Prepare decision materials, communicate decisions, and track commitments through completion.
- Anticipate operational and technical bottlenecks, improve recurring processes, and draft organization-wide communications.
What they ask for
- Technical fluency to engage substantively with researchers and understand model training and RL discussions.
- Clear writing, strong follow-through, attention to detail, and ability to assess and improve dashboards.
- Ability to advise and push back on senior stakeholders, influence without authority, and work effectively amid ambiguity.
- Experience in operations, chief of staff, program management, or a comparable role supporting senior leaders in a fast-moving technical organization.
Nice to have
- Directly supporting a senior leader in a chief of staff or related function; experience in a research-heavy organization.
- Experience moving operational work to AI agents or building small tools; familiarity with AI safety or existential risks.
Pay
$210,000 — $260,000 USD base salary
AI focus
Operational support for the reinforcement learning organization that trains Claude to be more capable, reliable, and aligned; preferred experience includes moving routine work to AI agents or building small tools.
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